ID: photo of Martin Luther King Jr. waving at the crowd during the March on Washington, on it is his quote: “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 小时前

    Supporting what was an active genocide for some vague possibility of fighting against genocide 4 years from now is an example of cooperating with evil.

    If the only thing that you’re doing politically is voting and are only doing it in presidential elections, you are part of what you is into this situation in the first place. Local elections, initiatives, primary elections, non-profits, mutual aid orgs, etc also need attention. Voting in EVERY election is the lowest threshold for actually impacting anything in an electoral system. It’s why the far-Right was able to get nazis into school boards.

    Dont deny her her agency. Is she a leader and an adult or is she not. Pick one.

    False dichotomy and premise there. She was an elected official and party of a party that was subverted by neoliberals who put in the effort to do so. As a part of a party that represents capital and the status quo, she was never going to go against Israel. Withholding votes to “force” her in the general election was not based upon any logical strategy to reduce harms and try to end the beneficial. It was nothing more than a performative action to pretend to have moral high ground while giving implicit support to a Nazi that is now ramping up the genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, and starting new ones in the US with trans erasure from government documents already well underway.

    Own your mess.

    Take your own advice and accept responsibility for doing your part.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
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      54 分钟前

      If the only thing that you’re doing politically is voting and are only doing it in presidential elections,

      thats a big if. Are you talking to yourself? comes down to just strawmnanning. Got any other what ifs you want to waste our time on? Maybe “what if aliens landed?”

      False dichotomy and premise there.

      I think you’re the one with the false premise. You say its illogical to try to pressure a neolib and that a neolib cant be forced to take another side, So she cant be forced to represent all of the democrats is what you are saying–admitting she shouldnt be the leader of all the democrats. Well done! I think a party leader should consider support of all the constituents of the party in order to win. Thats the effin job, not to just lead the neolibs, but to lead the whole party and win an election against another party. The neolibs arent the whoke party, do you understand that?